Ruler of the Gentle Darkness (Chapter One)
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh GX.
In this world most duel monsters duelists would have just a normal life of going out, dueling, and going home, but not for duelists like Jaden Yuki. Once a fun loving duelist who had no worries in the world, but after two and a half years at Duel Academy, nearing about halfway towards the end of his third year was when things had really gone bad.
A deranged man took dueling energy from all the students and after losing to Jaden the backlash had thrown the entire Academy into a different dimension where Jaden's past came back to haunt him. Yubel, the name of his favorite card as a child, had returned and orchestrated Jaden's downfall by taking Jaden's new found friend Jesse after they were close to beating her. With them back and Jesse gone Jaden was adamant about getting back into the alternate dimension to save Jesse.
His friends, naturally, weren't going to let him go alone and so they went with him, but as time went on it seemed that all Jaden was focusing on was finding Jesse and not caring about them. That left spirits to curse them and have them blame Jaden for everything. When Jaden tried saving them in a duel only Syrus was still alive as the others had died and were sent to the stars.
Jaden couldn't handle it; the guilt he felt was worse than any pain that could've ever been inflicted upon him. With that his mind and body were ripe for the taking and he was taken over by his previous life, a being known as the Supreme King. With that he went on a montage conquering the entire dimension and killed all those who opposed him.
The few friends who were still alive after most of them died, Jim and Axel, sought out to defeat the Supreme King, but when they saw it was Jaden they felt horrified. Horrified and guilty, guilty because if they hadn't of turned their backs on Jaden in the first place this might not have happened. Jim dueled valiantly to try and save Jaden and nearly did, but the Supreme King was too powerful and destroyed Jim sending him to the stars. Axel couldn't face him and fled.
After regrouping with Syrus, Crowler and Zane Axel returned with them to defeat the Supreme King. They got separated on the way up there, but Axel managed to make it up there and he dueled his very hardest to defeat the Supreme King, but only managed to result it in a draw. Axel and the Supreme King were killed and sent to the stars, but Jaden was alive.
But right now he wished he wasn't because the knowledge of what he did was almost too much to bare. In his own unique way, Zane tried to turn Jaden back, but by Jaden's refusal to play his cards properly made the duel end quickly.
Before anything else could happen… Jesse appeared, but it wasn't Jesse. It was Yubel possessing Jesse's body. Zane stepped up wanting to end this already and Yubel gladly agreed dueling Zane with a dark version of Jesse's Crystal beasts known as the Advanced Crystal Beasts. Zane fought long and hard and almost beat Yubel a number of times, but one last strike from the Rainbow Dark Dragon destroyed the rest of Zane's life points.
"I'll be waiting for you Jaden" Yubel sneered at him before flying away with an evil laugh. Jaden clenched his fists so hard his palms began to bleed and gnashed his teeth together.
"Zane, no" Syrus cried snapping Jaden from his anger. He ran over to them to see Zane glowing a faint yellow, the same color everyone else did when they died.
"It's fine Syrus" Zane said softly holding his chest while sweating profusely. "I got the final duel I wanted."
"Zane, we'll get you some help, just hold on" Jaden said.
Zane only glared coldly at him "The one good thing about me dying right now… is that I won't live to… Watch. You. Fail" he practically spat before his body disappeared into particles.
"Zane… ZANE" Syrus screamed in despair tears falling from his eyes. Crowler looked at Syrus with sadness visible on his face before he turned his look to Jaden and his eyes widened. Jaden had never looked so defeated and so devastated all at once. No sound was coming from him at all, but tears were spewing from his eyes.
Jaden sank to his knees now feeling absolutely hopeless now; another friend was gone and it was all his fault again. Even worse, it was his best friend's older brother "Jaden" a voice said. Jaden didn't look up but he did turn his head slightly.
'Neos' he thought.
"Why are you giving up Jaden" Neos asked. "You have never given up on a thing in your life; why are you starting now? You can still make things right?" Jaden didn't respond for a moment before he finally stood up.
'The only thing I can do to make things right Neos is to embrace the power of the Supreme King' Jaden responded blankly. 'I am beyond atonement for what I have done, but maybe, just maybe, I can redeem myself and bring the others back to life and save Jesse.'
"If that is what you will do I, and the others, will standby and support you" Neos told him strongly.
'Thank you' he replied. With that Jaden stood up and began to walk away.
"Jaden, where are you going" Crowler called to him.
"To end this" Jaden said firmly.
"Look Jaden, far be it for me to point this out, but you are not in the right state of mind to be doing anything right now" Crowler told him honestly.
He was right; Jaden was far from alright, but he had no choice. Instead he turned to face Crowler "Dr. Crowler, before I go I just wanted to say thank you." Crowler blinked at him confused "Even though you didn't like me at all for a long time you still worked together with all of us to protect the world and even protect our dorm. I realize you're so hard on us because you believe in us… and I just wanted to tell you thank you; you're a good teacher."
Crowler stared at Jaden with nothing less than shock; was this really Jaden. Was he really just thanking him after everything he did to him? Then it dawned on Crowler "Jaden, what are you going to do?"
"Redeem myself" Jaden said before suddenly a fierce wind picked up around Jaden. A dark golden energy seemed to glow around Jaden's body before he looked up his eyes a deep golden color; the eyes of the Supreme King. Then Jaden lifted his hands and a bright light enveloped the entire area making Crowler and Syrus cover their eyes from the light.
After a moment the light died away and when it did the two of them gaped as everyone was back; Alexis, Atticus, Aster, Axel, Jim, Chazz, Hassleberry and even Zane. They were all back and alive.
"Take care of them" Jaden said getting Crowler and Syrus' attention. His eyes were still golden and his voice radiated power. "And when this is all over… tell them I'm sorry." With that Jaden closed his eyes and walked off.
"Jaden, wait" Syrus called, but Jaden vanished in a flash to go and confront Yubel.
SCENE CHANGE
Yubel waited patiently for Jaden and when she sensed him a malicious grin lit her face, technically Jesse's since she was still using his body. She turned around "Welcome Jaden" she said, but paused when she saw his eyes and his disposition. It was not Jaden anymore; it was the Supreme King.
"Save the pleasantries Yubel" the Jaden said coldly. "There a waste of breath and time; let's do this now."
The grin came back "Very well; if you're in such a hurry to join the rest of your friends then fine with me." Jaden pulled out his duel disk and put it on his arm before holding his hand up. Yubel stared at him before suddenly she gasped as the biggest mass of dark energy she ever felt gathered in his hand. It swirled around in his hand for almost two minutes before dying away to reveal a single card. "What is that; what did you do" she demanded.
"You'll just have to find out" Jaden said slipping the card into his deck before shuffling and inserting his deck into his disk just as Yubel did the same with hers.
"DUEL" they both shouted.
SCENE CHANGE
Back down below the others were waking up one by one "W-What happened" Alexis groaned slightly sitting up.
"Easy Alexis" Crowler said. "You've been through rough experience."
"No kidding; my head's killing me" she said feeling her head.
"Mine too" Atticus and Chazz agreed. Then suddenly Chazz gasped "Wait a minute, how are we all alive?"
"Yeah; I thought we all died" Hassleberry agreed surprised that he was alive. Zane was especially shocked; he looked himself over and felt his chest. His heart was beating nice and strong.
"It was Jaden" Syrus said softly getting their attention. "Jaden brought you all back to life."
"Jaden" Atticus gasped.
"He brought us all back" Chazz gaped just as shocked as everyone else.
"Where is he" Alexis asked quickly. "Syrus where is he?"
Syrus didn't answer for a moment before speaking "He's gone to face Yubel; the one behind this whole mess."
Crowler then spoke "We don't even know if he plans on coming back." That made everyone gasp loudly.
"Jaden told me to tell you guys something" Syrus said. "He's sorry… sorry for everything."
"Well what the hell are we doing standing around here for" Chazz said "We need to go help him."
"Too right mate" Jim agreed.
"Come on; we've got to get to him" Alexis said hurriedly and all of them took off running as fast as they could determined to get to their friend. They were not going to let him be alone in this.
SCENE CHANGE
Yubel had just finished her first turn and activated Advanced Dark to give her a large advantage with her advanced crystal beasts and then summoned Advanced Crystal Beast Cobalt Eagle (1400/800) to end her turn.
Now it was Jaden's turn and he drew a card. "First thing I'm going to do is Summon Evil HERO Infernal Prodigy in attack mode" Jaden said summoning a large monster with a rather wicked grin on his face (300/600).
Yubel's eyes widened "Why do you have those cards; they were destroyed when the Supreme King was destroyed."
"Don't be stupid Yubel" Jaden responded. "The Supreme King can't be destroyed. I am him, he is me and we are one; unfortunately for you Yubel." Yubel sneered at Jaden "I'm not done yet because I activate the spell card Evil Multiply" he said playing a card that showed a small devil black figure multiplying. "With this I can take one DARK attribute monster with less than 500 attack points and make as many tokens of him as I can. Since I have four empty slots that means four tokens."
Four copies of Evil HERO Infernal Prodigy appeared in defense mode (300/600). "So you have a small defense; it won't help you."
"Really now" Jaden said. "Then let me inform you how wrong you are. When I summon Infernal Prodigy and there are no monsters on the field he counts as a special summon. Now I sacrifice the original Infernal Prodigy to summon out Evil HERO Malicious Edge." One Infernal Prodigy disappeared and a dark monster with long talons appeared on the field (2600/1800).
Yubel growled at him "Not that one."
"Yes that one and I'm sure you know that when you control a monster he only needs one sacrifice to be summoned" Jaden said. "But I'm not done; when Infernal Prodigy is sacrificed on the same turn he's summoned I get to draw one card." Jaden drew one card "Now Malicious Edge attack Cobalt Eagle with malicious slice."
"You fool" Yubel smirked. "With Advanced Dark on the field even if you destroy my Advanced Crystal Beasts all I need to do is send one to the graveyard and all battle damage becomes zero. So I'll send Advanced Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise to the graveyard to negate all battle damage." Cobalt Eagle was destroyed and a cobalt stone appeared in Yubel's spell and trap card zone.
Jaden: 4000
Yubel: 4000
But the life points stayed the same. "I place one card facedown and end my turn" Jaden said placing one card down.
"Then it's my move" Yubel said drawing a card. She smirked at him "I summon Advanced Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus" she said and a giant Pegasus with a large sapphire horn appeared (1800/1200). "Next I'm going to activate Sapphire Pegasus' special ability. When he's successfully summoned I can send one Advanced Crystal Beast to the spell and trap card zone and I choose Ruby Carbuncle."
A ruby stone appeared in the spell and trap card zone.
"But I'm not done yet" she said gleefully. "Due to Ruby Carbuncle's special ability I can summon it to the field." Ruby Carbuncle appeared on the field (300/300) "And you should know when Ruby Carbuncle is summoned to the field from the spell and trap card zone I get to summon all Advanced Crystal Beasts from the spell and trap card zone so Cobalt Eagle comes back." Cobalt Eagle reappeared on the field (1400/800).
"And what has that accomplished; you cannot defeat Malicious Edge" Jaden said calmly.
"Not yet, which is why I'm activating my Crystal Release spell card" Yubel said. "With this I can increase Sapphire Pegasus's attack points by 800." Sapphire Pegasus got even stronger (1800+800=2600/1200).
Jaden scowled "Now they're even."
"Exactly, but that's all I need" Yubel said. "Sapphire Pegasus destroy that Malicious Edge." Sapphire Pegasus charged and slammed into Malicious Edge just as Malicious Edge sliced into Sapphire Pegasus, both monsters were instantly destroyed. "And since Crystal Release was destroyed I can now place an Advanced Crystal Beast from my deck into my spell and trap card zone and I think I'll choose Topaz Tiger" she said and a topaz stone appeared in the spell and trap card zone. "Now to end my turn I'll have Cobalt Eagle destroy one of those Infernal Doppelgangers." Cobalt Eagle flew up and sliced through one of them.
"The end for you is nigh Jaden; it won't be long now" she said maliciously.
As Yubel finished her turn everyone else had finally made it to the area. "Jaden" Alexis whispered staring into his eyes. Those dark, evil golden eyes were not Jaden's; they were not the eyes of the duelist she had fallen in love with.
"What's wrong with his eyes" Chazz asked resisting the urge to shiver at the eyes.
"The Supreme King" Jim whispered softly while Axel's hand began shaking slightly before he clenched it hard.
"Jaden, it appears we have an audience" Yubel smirked. Jaden spared a glance in their direction and felt a brief flicker of happiness before he squashed it; there was no time for it.
"It matters not" he said making the others shiver at his voice. "My turn" he said drawing a card. "And I'm going to activate Dark Calling." Yubel growled at him.
"Dark Calling; since when did Jaden have a card like that in his deck" Aster asked.
No one answered; Axel however 'I know what's coming next' he thought.
"With this I'm going to remove from play my Evil HERO Malicious Edge in the graveyard with the Dark Ruler Ha Des in my hand in order to summon a fusion monster." Both monsters appeared before they began merging together. "And now the power of darkness has been unleashed; make way for the one and only Evil HERO Malicious Fiend" he said and a tall lanky figure with long wings and very sharp talons appeared on the field. He looked up with a dark grin flexing his claws (3500/2100).
"3500 attack points" Yubel gasped.
"That's right" Jaden smirked darkly. "With your Advanced Dark on the field you may not take damage, but you'll run out of monsters eventually. Malicious Fiend destroy Cobalt Eagle with Malicious Barrage." Malicious Fiend jumped into the air and with two swings blades shot out of the claws and struck Cobalt eagle destroying it. Yubel plucked a card from her hand revealing it to be Advanced Crystal Beast Amber Mammoth and discarded it.
"Wait, why did he attack Cobalt Eagle when he could've attacked the other one" Hassleberry asked confused.
"With Advanced Dark on the field as long as Yubel discards an Advanced Crystal Beast then all damage becomes zero" Zane said. "And if he attacked Ruby Carbuncle then on Yubel's turn she could activate its ability and bring all Advanced Crystal Beasts back to her field." While he spoke Zane only kept his eyes on Jaden 'Jaden' he thought.
"I end my turn" Jaden said.
Yubel drew a card and smirked something big "It's over now Jaden" she smirked. "I activate Monster Reborn to bring back Advanced Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegasus" she said and Sapphire Pegasus reappeared on the field. "And now that it's back I can activate its effect again and I choose to place Amethyst Cat in the spell and trap card zone" she said and then an Amethyst stone appeared in the spell and trap card zone.
Jaden's eyes narrowed before they widened slightly "Oh damn it" he cursed.
"That's right; now that seven Advanced Crystal Beasts are either on the field or in my graveyard I can now summon my most powerful beast" Yubel said victoriously. "Rise and destroy Jaden, Rainbow Dark Dragon." A massive black dragon with rainbow jewels imbedded in its body appeared on the field roaring at Jaden loudly (4000/0).
"No" Jim gasped. "His monster can't stand up to that power."
"He's in trouble" Axel said quietly.
"It's over Jaden; there's no card in your deck that can stand up to this amount of firepower" Yubel laughed. "Now Rainbow Dark Dragon destroy his Malicious Fiend" she roared and Rainbow Dark Dragon fired a blast of rainbow energy that completely decimated Malicious Fiend.
Yubel: 4000
Jaden: 3500
Jaden meanwhile barely even flinched from the attack "Now you're finished Jaden; you can't win."
"Wrong" Jaden responded.
"What" Yubel gasped.
"You should save your gloating for later" he advised "I activate the trap card Malicious Mind Control." His trap card flipped up revealing a picture of Malicious Fiend and Malicious Edge with the mind control swirl behind them.
"What does that do" Yubel asked.
"I'll tell you what it does" Jaden said. "It activates when you destroy either Malicious Fiend or Malicious Edge. The monster that destroyed it now becomes mine."
"What, no" Yubel shouted as Rainbow Dark Dragon flew off of her field and landed on Jaden's field.
"Now Rainbow Dark Dragon is mine" Jaden said. "And with its power I will now free Jesse and send everyone home."
"NO" Yubel roared.
"I'm not done yet" Jaden said plucking one card from his hand "I activate Mystical Space Typhoon and with it I'm going to destroy Advanced Dark." The spell card exploded "And with Advanced Dark gone so are all the Advanced Crystal Beasts on the field." Ruby Carbuncle and Sapphire Pegasus vanished along with the three stones in the spell and trap card zone. "Now you're field is empty, you got no spell and trap cards on the field and even your hand is totally empty. It's over Yubel."
"No it's not over; not yet" she shouted.
"It is over; Rainbow Dark Dragon attack" Jaden roared and Rainbow Dark Dragon launched a large blast of power that completely enveloped Yubel and her final scream echoed long after the attack hit.
Jaden: 3500
Yubel: 0
And like that it was over and when the blast cleared Jesse was lying there "Jesse" Jaden cried running up to him. When he got there he crouched down and held Jesse in his arms. The others ran over to him "Jesse are you okay; say something."
Jesse didn't respond for a moment before he finally opened his eyes and they were no longer the orange color of Yubel's, but back to their regular jade color. "Jaden" he said quietly.
Jaden smiled "Hey Jesse; I told you I'd get you back."
Jesse smiled and grabbed Jaden's hand "Thanks Jay" he whispered. Slowly, but surely Jaden helped Jesse stand up and then he was facing his friends.
"Guys… I..." Jaden said quietly.
"Don't say anything else" Aster said raising his hand, but was smiling.
"Yeah Jaden; Syrus told us everything" Atticus said with a smile of his own. "It's all cool."
"Yeah Sarge; we all forgive you" Hassleberry said with a thumbs up.
"So you made a mistake slacker; not like it hasn't happened before" Chazz smirked.
"It's all good mate" Jim nodded to him.
"You weren't yourself Jaden; everything's fine now" Axel told him.
Alexis stepped forward "We all forgive you Jaden" she said with a positively gorgeous smile.
Jaden couldn't believe what he heard, but he smiled "Thanks guys" he said. "Now come on; we need to find a way out of here." Before they could start setting out suddenly wind began to pick up followed by a malevolent aura. "No… no, no, no, no" Jaden groaned turning around with Jesse still on his shoulder and everyone else turning as well.
Glowing dark energy swirled around in front of them before it formed a giant face of Yubel "You haven't beaten me Jaden" she shouted before suddenly the energy formed into a large bipedal dark dragon with nasty face on its chest and long arms with Yubel standing on the top of its head.
Everyone gasped in shock at the monster "You just don't give up do you" Jaden glared.
"Of course I don't; I will never stop" Yubel glared. "If I'm gone who will protect you; you may have the power of the Supreme King, but you do not have the full control of it. You must be protected, you must remain safe and you must master your power until the time comes when you must face the great evil."
"What evil; what are you talking about" Chazz yelled at Yubel.
"Let's not stick around to find out" Crowler said nervously.
Jaden stared at Yubel now; what did she mean by protect him after everything she did she wanted to protect him. Suddenly Jaden's mind was assaulted by visions.
"What the…" he gasped when he saw himself floating in the sky. He saw an ancient looking kingdom. He saw a man that looked like a king along with a young girl with medium length blue hair and green eyes.
"Yubel, listen closely there is something I wish to tell you" the king said.
"Yes sir" the young girl responded. Jaden gasped; that girl was Yubel.
"Long ago before life was created the universe was balanced by both light and darkness" the king began. "The light was chaotic and evil and spread it's destruction along everywhere until the darkness banished the light and created all life, but chaos and light waves are soon to be spreading throughout the universe again and threaten to destroy all life. Only the one born with the power of the Gentle Darkness can stop it; the Supreme King. He is here, it is my son the prince, but he is only a temporary vessel for its power. The darkness shall pass through time until it finds its true vessel where it will remain in that line forever. Someone must follow through time and protect the heir to the darkness until he is ready."
"Please my king, let that be me" Yubel begged.
Now Jaden was witnessing a whimpering Yubel being tied to a table while doctors were all around her "You have chosen to protect the will of the Supreme King" one of the doctors said. "To ensure your success you must receive the dragon's heart." Jaden was unable to watch and closed his eyes trying to block out Yubel's screams of agony.
"Don't do it" a young voice cried. Jaden turned with a gasp and saw the one who he guessed was the Prince. He looked just like Jaden when he was younger "Stop it" he shouted running into the room right through Jaden.
"It's like me and Yubel in the past" Jaden realized. He gasped "I remember it." He then witnessed the young prince and the now demonetized Yubel talking.
"Why'd you do it Yubel; please tell me, I don't understand" the prince cried tears going down his face.
"Of course you don't, but know this I did this for you" Yubel said softly.
"Okay, but I'm going to make it up to you" the prince vowed. "I'll always be with you so you're never alone."
The visions ended and Jaden found himself back in the present staring at Yubel; one single tear slid down his eye. No one, but Yubel noticed. Jaden untangled himself from Jesse and stepped forward "Jaden" Jesse said.
Jaden turned back to them and they witnessed his eyes turning back to the evil golden color of the Supreme King "Sorry guys" he whispered before turning back around and lifting his hand. "Bvtmon Tabges Babalon" he chanted in another language.
Suddenly the air distorted in front of Jaden and a black hole completely opened up in front of him with the wind threatening to suck him in; Yubel widened her eyes as she saw what he had used. "Jaden; what are you doing" Axel shouted.
Jaden turned to them with a sad smile on his face his eyes back to normal "Sorry guys, but… this is something I have to do. To protect you guys and save the world; goodbye, I'll miss you all." With another smile to them all Jaden closed his eyes and leaned back letting the wind take him.
"NO" many voices cried at once. Jesse and Alexis lunged for Jaden just as Yubel charged at him. Yubel grabbed him first and was going to pull him back up, but Jaden just smiled at her and grabbed her arm before pulling. Jesse and Alexis were just out of reach and were unable to grab him.
They could only watch in helpless horror as Jaden and Yubel fell through the black hole disappearing into the darkness. Then suddenly the world exploded in light and they knew no more.
SCENE CHANGE
Back at Duel Academy everyone was rushing towards the sight of the old ruins as they heard a massive explosion. They really hoped everyone was okay and as they got there they saw everyone was back.
"Jaden… why'd you do it" Jesse whispered quietly trying to hold back his tears. Alexis had no such qualms and tears freely spilled from her eyes and down her cheeks.
Chancellor Shepherd walked up to them "Jaden, where is he" he asked quickly.
Jesse finally let his tears spill as he said "Up there… he's now among the stars."
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